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Wings with long pointed dark scales along the costa, a grey 
fringe at the apex and a pale fringe around the rest of the wing ; 
veins covered by broadish short dark grey scales; first sub- 
marginal cell a little longer and narrower than the second 
posterior cell, its stem curved. 
Halteres pale, with fuscous knob. 
Length .—1 • 8 to 2 mm. 
Habitat. —Quilon, Travancore, S. India (James, 7. 3. 1900). 
Time of capture .—February (James). 
Observations .—Only a couple of males of this species have so 
far been received. It is a very small species, small even for a 
member of the genus TJranotaenia. The pale pleurae and coxae 
and the dark stripe on the metanotum to some extent should 
easily separate it from all known species. 
No notes were sent by Captain James concerning this species, 
which is evidently a male of the genus TJranotaenia. 
12. Uranotaenia (?) argyropus. Walker. 
(Brit. Mus. List, p. 2 (1848).) 
Thorax when denuded ferruginous in front, black behind, 
with narrow curved hair-like brown scales ; flat blue scales on the 
prothoracic lobes. Abdomen fuscous, with white apical lateral 
patches; venter with the apex of the segments white. Legs 
brown; femora with white apical spot and band; fore legs with 
apex of second, whole of the third, and base of the fourth tarsi 
dull white; third and fourth hind tarsi white. Ungues of the 
9 equal and simple. 
9 • Head black, with a border of azure-blue flat scales round 
the eyes and black bristles projecting forwards ; clypeus deep 
brown ; antennae missing, basal joint clear pale ferruginous; eyes 
black, with a faint coppery sheen and a black line separating 
them; palpi two-jointed, black scaled, with a patch of silvery- 
white scales in the middle ; proboscis black. 
Thorax much squashed, but shows the following characters : 
when denuded, ferruginous in front, black behind, with traces of 
short, narrow, curved hair-like scales above and two rows of long 
golden-brown bristles behind, a single median row in front; on 
each side in front is a patch of small flat pale blue scales; scu- 
tellum ochraceous, with evidently flat dusky scales; metanotum 
